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Mar 1, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Ian Martin |Banjo Damilola |Maria Luisa Gambale |Irwin Arieff
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Jessica Le Masurier |Fatma Khaled |Ian Martin |Banjo Damilola |Maria Luisa Gambale |Irwin Arieff
At dawn on Thursday morning in Gaza City, photographer Mohammed Hajjar got word that trucks carrying food had finally made it into the capital of the besieged Palestinian enclave. At 4 A.M., he went with his brother to the neighboring Al-Rashid street to try and obtain what they could for their family, he told FRANCE 24 by phone.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Marissa Conway |Ian Martin |Arthur Bassas |Irwin Arieff |Dan Becker
Britain has cut its international aid several times since 2020 and, by the government's own , the well-being of women around the world has been substantially impacted. The 2021 cut to , the UN Population Fund, is a prime example. If the £130 million (approximately $164 million) in funding had been maintained, it would have helped prevent a quarter of a million child and maternal deaths, 14 million unintended pregnancies and 4 million unsafe abortions.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Dawn Clancy |Clair MacDougall |Irwin Arieff
Welcome to This Week @UN: Azerbaijan to lead COP29; Gaza's garbage pileup; US envoy loves Liberia. Plus: UN Security Council meeting on ICJ ruling; Yemen, Haiti, Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.Our most-read story of the week: What Was Azerbaijan Thinking? Most-read story of the month: UN Envoy to Visit Israel and West Bank* It's a new year, so we ask everyone who has not donated recently to consider contributing at least $200 as an annual subscription.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Richard Ponzio |Dawn Clancy |Irwin Arieff |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani | +1 more
Welcome to This Week @UN: Remember Nikki Haley?; Summit of the Future; South Africa's genocide case; interviewing the General Assembly president. Plus: Cabo Verde, Yemen, Gaza and Somalia.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola |Richard Ponzio |Dawn Clancy |Irwin Arieff |Arthur Bassas
The Genocide Convention was codified in 1948 in response to the atrocities committed against Jewish people and others during World War II. Seventy-five years later, predominately Jewish Israel is facing the International Court of Justice on allegations of intent to commit genocide against its historical neighbor, Palestine. Israel is ready to defend itself before the top judicial organ of the United Nations, also known as the World Court, said Eylon Levy, spokesperson for the Israeli government.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Dawn Clancy |Ian Martin |Banjo Damilola |Maria Luisa Gambale |Irwin Arieff
Pramila Patten, the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, is reportedly going to Israel at the end of January. She was invited by the government to visit the country more than a month ago to hear first-hand testimonies from Israeli survivors of sexual violence allegedly committed during the brutal Hamas and affiliated militia attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Irwin Arieff |Barbara Crossette
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola |Dawn Clancy |Richard Ponzio |Irwin Arieff |Maria Luisa Gambale
The two-state solution is inevitable to end the war between Israel and Palestine, France says. Nicolas de Rivière, France's ambassador to the United Nations, told PassBlue that the last two decades should have been used to implement the peace process based on the Oslo Accords, rather than let the initiatives gather dust.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
passblue.com | Fergal Mythen |Banjo Damilola |Irwin Arieff |Richard Ponzio |Arthur Bassas |Hasmik Egian | +1 more
There's an old Irish proverb, "Ní hé lá na gaoithe lá na scolb." Roughly translated, it means that "the day of the wind is not the day for fixing the thatch" - a common roofing material for homes in rural Ireland back in the day. The saying is a reminder that if you wait until the last minute to take action, you are done for. In 2015, the global community came together to get ahead of clouds that were clearly gathering on the horizon. Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs), 169 targets.
